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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2474, 19 May 1888, Page 2

Our Supplement contains the continuation of Through Deep Waters ; Princess Bonniebelle, a fairy tale by Mrs Rattray ; Melbourne Gossip by our own correspondent; Farm and Garden Notes, with an account of Messrs Sharp and Fergusson's orchard; Victor Hugo's panegyric on England, and many other interesting articles.

The English mail via San Francisco closes at the Waikato offices to-day. The mail will close at Hamilton at 3.15 p.m.

Footballers are requested to muster to-day for practice at 3 p.m.

A meeting of merchants and bankers has taken place in London, to consider the defences of the country.

A private cable states that the Shaw, Saville and Albion Steamship Company have declared a dividend of five per

Lieut.-Col. Roberts has been appointed Stipendiary Magistrate and Sheriff, for Auckland, vice Mr Baddeley, who has resigned.

Large clearances are being made of goods in bond, principally tea and sugar, in anticipation of an increase in the duties on those articles.

The Kamo-Kawakawa Railway Bill has been thrown out. Mr Houbs is very sore at its defeat, and declares he was '" sold " by his friends.

The business in the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday consisted of debt cases, which Capt. Jackson disposed of during the morning sitting.

Mr J. Parr has on show at his store two enormous pumpkins, grown from Webb's Mammoth seed by Mr Clarkin. One of these weighs llOlbs, and is over sft. in circumference.

There will be a large number of Waikato people to witness the football match in Auckland to-day. We hope to give the result of the contest early this evening.

Mr Mowbray, of Auckland, for Mr E. L. Smith, and Mrs Bright, of Onehunga, for Mr Meredith, made a valuation yesterday of the Royal Hotel, perparatory to a transfer of the license.

The entire property of the Union Sash and Door Company, of Auckland, is to be offered for sale by auction on the 31st inst. by order of the Registrar of the Supreme Court, and at the instance of the mortgagees.

The Loan Bill authorising the raising of £2,400,000, has been passed through all its stages. Mr Scobie Mackenzie and a few other members opposed it, as they disfavoured any further borrowing.

Preparations are being made to put in live hundred acres of winter wheat on the Lockerbie Estate this season. Seed of the varieties known as Velvet Pearl and Hunter's has been imported from Canterbury for this purpose.

Piripi Timonui, a native, who had been subpiunaed to attend the Native Land Court at Otorohanpa, but refused to do so, was arrested under warrant from Judge Mair. He was conveyed yesterday from Taupiri to Otorohanga in charge of Constable Wild.

Te Kooti has petitioned Parliament, asking for a recompense for the destruction of his houses and their contents by fire on the night of the 27th January last. He calmly urges that it has been the custom and the law in New Zealand to show love to those who are in trouble or who have suffered loss of any kind !

In another column will be found the report of the proceedings taken by the Rabbit Department in tho K. M. Court at Tβ Awamutu against several settlers in the district for failing to. keep their land free of rabbits. The case will be of interest to those who recognise the evils of tho rabbit pest in this colony.

In our Supplement to-day will appear the first of a regular series of interesting letters we shall receive from Melbourne, under special arrangement with a literary gentleman residing in that city. Apart trom current gossip, this will enable our readers to be supplied with items most worthy of note during the progress of the Exhibition, which will be opened there shortly.

The Salvation Army is becoming a popular institution in Hamilton. Each evening during the present week, prior to holding their meetings in the Oddfellows' Hall, the officers and trumpeter have paraded the streets on both sides of the liver, with torches, singing and playing hymns, attracting large audiences to the hall, the sitting accommodation there being severely taxed.

"Puff "thus criticises the opening of Parliament : The opening of the Koreroriiim was a domdismal affair to-day, was'nt it ?—Never saw it worse ! The members look as if they'd got a fit of the mullygrubs ! More like a waxworks than the opening of Parliament ! —What's gone wrong with them ? —Why, it's rumoured that under the new rules of procedure they're to have nothing but bread and scrape and skyblue in Bellamy's, and every Saturday night they're to have a doso of brimstone and treacle served out with a spoon?—Do-the-boys Hall is nothing to it !

An event that created a good deal of excitement at Huntly took place on Wednesday last in tho marriage of Mr Boswell, the stationmaster, to Miss Rebecca Harris, the eldest daughter of Mr L. B. Harris. Six bridesmaids took part in the ceremony, which was conducted by that popular priest, Father Luck. After the fatal knot had been tied, the friends and relatives sat down to a delightful wedding breakfast, to which ample justice was done, The happy couple then left by train for Auckland. Their friends assembled at the station and threw over them rice and slippers, wishing them happiness and "God speed."

Messrs Goldsborough and Co's. wool report for the month of April gives the following particulars of the shipments from each colony during the year to date : —Victoria, 338,271) bales, 'incroasß from corresponding period last year, 13,842; New South Wales, 384,041 bales, increase, t>1.011; South Australia, 140,248 bales, increase, 2,0-1-7 ; 'Queensland, f>2.511 balos, increase, 24,100; West Australia, 10,338, increase, (So bales; Tasmania, 10,G. r )7, increase, 1,002 bales ; New Zealand, 237,001 bales, decrease, 0,f>44. Grand total for all the colonies, 1,22"i,07S bales, increase, 97,710.

A very pleasant evening's entertainment was given in the Trinity Presbyterian Church, Cambridge, yesterday, in aid of the Sunday-school. Numerous songs, recitations, etc., were rendered in an excellent manner. The attendance was also Rood.

A Maori named Teranapea, brother of Mr Robert Tnkere, was brought np at the Cambridge Police Court, on Thursday, befoto T. Wells, Esq., J. P., charged with having stolen a saddle and bridle from the Masonic Hotel in September last. Prisoner asked to have tho case remanded until Monday, so that he could produce evidence. The police offering no objection it was accordingly remanded, prisoner being admit'ed to bail, himself £20 and one European £20. Mr J. S. Bnckknd kindly became surety for him.

Mr Isaac Coates' tender for threshing has been accepted by Mr Harrison, the manager of the Lockerbio Estate, Morrinsville, where over a thousand acres were under crop last season, «n that the job is a pretty extensive one. Operations begin on Monday. Mr Coates was not the lowest tenderer, but Mr Harrison decided to accept it, after seeing the work done by tho mill at Mr S. S. Graham's, where it has been at work during , the last week, turning out an excellent marketable sample.

Dogs are getting troublesome again in this neighbourhood. Mr Gordon, Woodlands, has had to resort to laying poison owing to depradations amongot the sheep on the Waikato Land Association's property; and on Monday and Tuesday last Mr Coates had the misfortune to have his flock of valuable sheep worried. The evil no doubt arises from the number of worthless curs about, mongrel sporting dogs and greyhounds. Many of this class of dogs can be seen daily about, some of them go away hunting for hares and rabbits on thoir own account, and getting amongst the sheep start to worry them for pastime.

The representative of a big Melbourne house of wholesale produce merchants bus been in (tore, says the Mat.iuni. Ensign, making enquiries concerning dairy produce. He was enquiring particularly for butter, which his firm were willing to lake in lo'gs in preference to pound tins. He expressed great confidence in tho futur.i of the New Zealand dairy produce trade, and was much struck with the abundance of pasture everywhere visible. He was confident that the Australian colonies must continue to draw largely up-iii New Zealand for dairy produce, and explained how Melbourne was at present and must remain for some time a distributing centre

We have received a letter from "Non-bigot" in which he says, "During the servico last Sunday at the Roman Catholic Chapel, Hamilton, Father Fox informed his flock in the following words, as far as I can recollect." "I, as your priest warn you not to attend any of the meetings held by the Salvation Army, under pain of heing excluded from partaking of the Holy Sacrament for three months." Our correspondent comments severely on this as unchristian conduct, and reminds Father Fox that the Army give succour to the drunken and fallen of all creeds, Catholic as well as others, irrespectively.

In an interview published by a Southern paper, Mr Jaun's Mills says :—ln my opinion what is at the bottom of the, present stagnation is not so much our public indebtedness, allbo.-igh that is heavy enough, but our largu private indebtedness. A va-t number of properties are overmortgaged to our financial institutions which are afraid to realise. It suits them better to keep the securities on their books at a fictitious valuation, in tho hope that something may turn up to their advantage. The nominal proprietors arc really insolvent, and have neither money nor heart to improve and manage their properties as they should bo managed. We want to get rid of these insolvent proprietors. Lot the mortgagees realise, and when it becomes known outside that properties in New Zealand can be got at fair values, I fenl sure men with means will bo attracted to our shores from tho neighbouring colonies and the old country. We want capital as well as population, and if we drive away the former the latter will follow. It is going on ns we see at present."

Sir William fox did not lecture at Hamilton East as previously announced, owing to severe indisposition. Thero was a large meeting in the, Oddfellow's Hail, many of whom were disappointed at his absence. The chair was taken by the Rev. Mr Carr(Weiley.m), supported by the Salvation Army captains, and Mr Glover, the official agent of thu New Zealand Alliance, addressed the meeting. There is a rough eloquence about Mr Glover, and his occasional jocularity supplies an element of mirth to his audience, but, his illustrations are exaggerated, and his facts arc often erroneous and_ illogical, his language, is conspicuous for its want of polish and absence of good taste, which must be a source of weakness to a great cause. Sir William Fox is undoubtedly the living power of strength of the Alliance, and the progress and amount of good achieved by it is due to his influence and powerful personal advocacy. Wo took the trouble in a recent issue to give an abridged account of the work of the Alliance, which we culled from its recently published report.

As an illustration of the difficulty that surrounds colonial produce finding favour with tho British consumer, we have been told the following story :—A well-known South Island squatter shipped a quantity of his own sheep for the English meat market. He put a special brand on a, particular part of each carcase. lie accompanied his frozen flock on the voyage and followed them from their landing at the docks to Smithfield market where they were sold at an average of 3. l ,d per lb. The next day he visited the butchers. He asked the first one what meat he sold and was told West of England, Welsh and northern, but principally the former. Asked if he had any colonial meat, he replied not, his customers would not look at the article, it was bad-flavoured and unsaleable. The New Zealander pointed to a carcase, said it was a fine looking sheep and was told it was " West of England," soiling at lOd per lb. " Now," said the squatter, '" you see that star, that is my private mark, that sheep was grown by myself, on my run in Canterbury, New Zealand, and is prime colonial mutton." The moral of this is that as regards our meat, butter, and other exports of the kind, tho colonial producers should set to work to reach the consumers at Home direct and dispense with the army of middlemen, who swallow amongst them the difference between the two prices quoted above.

Mr Spragg, of the Butter Department of the New Zealand Frozen Meat and Storage Company, is in the Waikato, with the purpose of meeting the farmers to arrange for next season's supplies of milk to the creameries. The Company are prepared to continue the purchase of sound milk at 2,' cd per gallon, but wish to be assured that a steady supply will bemaintained throughout the year on a scale sufficiently large to encourage them to maintain their expensive establishments in connection with that branch of their business. The importance of tho dairy industry is now universally recognised, and both in Great Britain and in the colony, is it looked upon in its future possibilities as being the means of removing many of the difficulties that have operated so heavily against the agricultural interests, farmers, and small settlers particularly, should uso every effort to continue the work of the dairy unchecked throughout tho year, systematically, by providing winter fodder In the shape of ensilage, &c, and by keeping only the best description of cows. A meeting of settlers in Paterangi took place in the school-room at that place yesterday morning, at 11 o'clock, Mr Mucky in tho chair. Mr Spragg explained the proposals of the company re next season's business. These proposals had been previously submitted by circulars, which were forwarded to milk suppliers during the past month. After a number of questions had been asked, and the intentions of the Freezing Company had been put fully before the meeting, a motion expressive of a desire to retain the creamery in Paterangi was passed, and sub-com-mittees were appointed to canvass the difforent portions of the district to obtain the guarantee of the 000 cows, as requested by the company. Mr Spragg meets the suppliers at the Hamilton factory at S o'clock this morning, and at Ngaruawahia at 2 o'clock this afternoon.